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Seven Ways to Make Open Innovation Work

By On December 1, 2011 · In Open Innovation

An article in Inventor’s Digest reports that if your company isn’t innovating, it’s slipping behind the competition. With the Internet and the increasing flow of ideas and information, internal R&D departments alone aren’t always the answer. More than ever, business owners are embracing open innovation to stay ahead. Open innovation is more than a toolkit, [...]

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InnovationAfrica: The year in review

By On November 23, 2011 · In News, Special

In 2011, we published 550 stories. Over half of the stories were in Agriculture, Knowledge Management, and ICT. In terms of impact, Agriculture and Medicine has been the most significant.

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Syngenta Thoughtseeders launched to maximize innovation potential for global agricultural solutions

By On November 20, 2011 · In Agriculture, Open Innovation

The MarketWatch website reports that Syngenta has launched a new online portal, SyngentaThoughtseeders.com, to stimulate and accelerate collaborations with external parties for the development of new, integrated solutions in agriculture. By collaborating with a host of contributors, academics, creative individuals, research institutes and innovative partners, Syngenta aims to combine genetics, chemistry and other cutting-edge technologies. [...]

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How Open Innovation Can Open Doors For You

By On August 11, 2011 · In Open Innovation

This article on the website “Smashing Entrepreneur” describes some of the factors that emerged in the past few years that paved the way for Open Innovation paradigms and lays out some steps for turning ideas into a reality through open innovation. There’s also a video from the former CEO of Procter and Gamble, A.G. Lafley, [...]

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Which software is right for open innovation?

By On September 30, 2010 · In Innovation

InnovationManagement.se (September 27, 2010) – This article discusses which software might be best suited to different Open Innovation (OI) approaches. The subject is of particular interest since, on the one hand there are more and more companies that are embracing OI, and on the other, there are multiple software solutions available in the market that [...]

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Open innovation and real life…

By On September 14, 2010 · In Innovation

Innovation Africa is a strong advocate of Open Innovation. We believe it offers African countries access to knowledge.  In the article below, the author provides insight into the challenges that Open Innovation creates for firms.

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The Side Effects of Open Innovation

By On August 5, 2010 · In News

BusinessWeek (June 7, 2010) – Open innovation will not only lead to new ways of making innovation happen; there will also be side effects. As an open innovation advocate, Stefan Lindegaard thinks most of these effects will be positive. But it’s also reasonable to expect that some will be mixed or perhaps even negative. Here, [...]

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